Now she's in her first year of hunting and doing very well. Still some things that she gets a bit timid about, like big water retrieves in strong current and what not, but most of the birds we shoot over the decoys, she is right on.

DaveyShe sure is sweet how old is she, I car,nt post pctures from over here in the UK but if I was to send you CD,s with pictures on from time to time would you be willing to post them on the forum for me mate.

All great looking mudd puppies....waterfowling is nothing without your dog next to you....Here's Maggie a Chocolate lab,I've trained since she was 15 weeks old...she's now 5 and has had 2 operations on her knees in the last year,but comming back strong....she loves the water, hunting snowgeese and canadas....she's my baby....

Rusty Black wrote:All great looking mudd puppies....waterfowling is nothing without your dog next to you....Here's Maggie a Chocolate lab,I've trained since she was 15 weeks old...she's now 5 and has had 2 operations on her knees in the last year,but comming back strong....she loves the water, hunting snowgeese and canadas....she's my baby....

Rusty with the exspesion on maggies face in that picture, says it all mate, It just looks like to me she is saying, Hang on a minuet whos going to go for this retrieve me or you

Kensi (CLF) is only 8 months old and hasn't been on a waterfowl hunt just yet as she's still in training. I have however taken her on a couple pheasant hunts with an older CLF (Ries) and she found and flushed 2 birds on her own so that's a start! Not fast enough to get to the retrieve though...but that'll be coming! Loves to watch flocks of geese fly over the house and I've had her sitting and watching a couple hundred geese in a field a few times and she's focused! I think she'll be a good one down the road!

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Goodlooking pup John.....when your pup's light switches on she'll be a retrieving machine.....and Ed....when that shotgun goes off it's like the start of a track meet...her drive is awsome even with the 2 operations in her knees, it has'nt slowed her down......Rusty

This is my boy Ice. He just turned a year old. We worked real hard during the summer months and the results were fantastic. Although he still acts like a puppy and needs more training in the layout blind, he had close to 200 retrieves this season.

RayIce is a nice looking boy, OB training is the main stay in all your gundog work, as I have said to other people, if you car,nt control your dog at the side of you, you have got no chance of controling your dog 100 yards away.